Author record · 2016 to 2025
Ekua Holmes: Awards and Best-of Lists
Ekua Holmes has won 3 awards, including the Coretta Scott King Book Awards (2016) for Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, with 4 shortlist or finalist places and 4 year-end list picks in our archive.
Also credited with Carole Boston Weatherford, Chris Barton, Kwame Alexander, Barbara Reynolds, Chris Colderley, Coretta Scott King, Marion Dane Bauer, Marjory Wentworth, Renée Watson
Every recognition
| Year | Book | Source | Result | Translator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King | Coretta Scott King Book Awards source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Honor · Illustrator | |
| 2024 | Black Girl You Are Atlas | NPR Books We Love source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Books We Love | |
| 2019 | The Stuff of Stars | Coretta Scott King Book Awards source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Winner · Illustrator | |
| 2019 | What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan | NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Nonfiction for Children | |
| 2018 | Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets | Coretta Scott King Book Awards source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Winner · Illustrator | |
| 2018 | What Do You Do with a Voice like That? | Booklist Editors' Choice source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Books for Youth: Nonfiction, Middle Readers | |
| 2017 | Out Of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets | NPR Books We Love source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Books We Love | |
| 2016 | Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement | Coretta Scott King Book Awards source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Winner · John Steptoe New Talent | |
| 2016 | Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement | Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Honor · Informational Book | |
| 2016 | Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement | Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Honor · Nonfiction | |
| 2016 | Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement | Randolph Caldecott Medal source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Honor · Picture Book |
Books
- Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement4 sources · 2016
- Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets2 sources · 2017 to 2018
- What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan2 sources · 2018 to 2019
- Black Girl You Are Atlas1 source · 2024
- Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King1 source · 2025
- The Stuff of Stars1 source · 2019